AI Engineer Study Library
Built from 102 Facebook reels, 1,391 X posts and 2 blog articles by Bashiri Smith on Facebook; Melvin Vivas on X; Melvin Vivas on Blog (2023-04-08 to 2026-10-02). It lists 1,291 resources they mention, 69 of them free to watch, plus 6 PDFs they shared. Every resource links back to the reel or post it came from. Generated 2026-10-03.
An unofficial study index, not affiliated with or endorsed by the creators. The summaries and key points are AI-assisted, written in the library's own words, checked by the maintainer and may contain mistakes; every entry links to the original, and the videos, posts and guides belong to their creators.
Credits
Built from the free content these creators share. Please follow and support them:
- Bashiri Smith (BASWE.Ai): Facebook · YouTube · Instagram · TikTok · LinkedIn · X · BASWE.Ai community · Website
- Melvin Vivas: X (@melvindvivas) · X (@donvito) · GitHub · Website · Blog
Full credits: CREDITS.md. The summaries and notes are licensed CC BY-NC 4.0 (LICENSE.md); the original videos, posts and guides belong to their creators.
Start here
- Open index.html in your browser. It has search, filters, and checkboxes to track progress.
- free-watch-list.md: every free video, playlist and course they recommend, grouped by topic.
- learning-path.md: the topics in study order, each with reels/posts, resources and project ideas.
- Study plans, week by week: 1-month plan (the fast track, about 15 h a week) · 2-month plan (the standard path, about 10 h a week) · 3-month plan (the thorough path, about 8 h a week).
- resources.md / resources.csv: everything, with links and the post each came from.
- notes/: one note per reel or post with the summary, key points and links.
Free guides they shared
- 5 books to upgrade from software engineer into Ai/ML engineer, 1 pages: A one-page reading list of five books for software engineers moving into AI or ML engineering. It covers math (Mathematics for Machine Learning), classic ML (Hands-On ML), deep learning (Goodfellow et al.), building AI products (Chip Huyen's AI Engineering) and LLMOps (Abi Aryan). Each book comes with a short note on whether it is essential for AI engineers, ML engineers or both. The page ends with a pitch for the creator's paid Skool community.
- Evaluation Field Guide (baswe.ai engineer accelerator – Ops and Evaluation module), 41 pages: Bashiri Smith's 41-page practitioner's guide to evaluating AI systems. It covers eval fundamentals (eval-driven development, golden datasets, metric types, basic statistics), deterministic and overlap metrics for LLM outputs, LLM-as-a-judge (rubric design, judge biases, checking judges against human labels), RAG evaluation (retrieval metrics and the RAG triad), agent trajectory evaluation, model benchmarking and fine-tune evaluation, and production evals (tracing, online signals, A/B tests, drift, guardrails, CI eval gates). It ends with a map of the eval tool stack, four portfolio projects and interview signals. Read it once end to end, then use it as a reference, and build one of the portfolio projects.
- How to become an expert in RAG (BASWE AI Engineer Field Guide), 1 pages: A one-page field guide from BASWE that lays out a 5-stage path to mastering retrieval-augmented generation. The stages are: get the mental model, build a base pipeline (chunking, embeddings, vector DB, retrieval), upgrade retrieval (hybrid search, reranking, RAG-Fusion, HyDE), ship it to production (evals, latency/cost, guardrails, monitoring), and explore advanced methods (agentic, knowledge-graph and multimodal RAG, RAPTOR, ColBERT, corrective RAG). It lists free courses and YouTube videos for each step and ends with a pitch for the creator's paid Skool community. Treat the stages as a checklist and, as the guide says, ship one real project at every stage.
- System Card: Claude Opus 4.8, 244 pages: Anthropic's 244-page system card for Claude Opus 4.8 (May 28, 2026). It reports pre-deployment evaluations covering Responsible Scaling Policy risks (chemical/biological weapons, AI R&D, misalignment), cyber capabilities, safeguards and harmlessness, agentic safety (including the first live prompt-injection bug bounty), alignment, model welfare and capability benchmarks. Read it as a detailed case study in how a frontier lab evaluates a model: red-teaming, behavioral audits, evaluation awareness and chain-of-thought monitorability, and benchmarks like SWE-bench, OSWorld and MCP Atlas.
- The AI Pivot Field Guide, 23 pages: A 2026 guide from the baswe.Ai Engineer Accelerator with three routes into AI engineering: mid-level software engineers (9 to 12 months), new grads (12 months) and non-technical domain experts who want to build agents (9 months). Its main idea is to build first. Start with LLM APIs and RAG, then agents, ops and evaluation, then safety, and leave ML math and foundations for last. It also covers job-market and salary data, portfolio and interview advice, and ends with a resource library of free and free-tier links. Pick your chapter, follow its steps in order, and use each step's 'Start here' links.
- The Interview Engine: The 7-Step System to Land AI Engineering Interviews, 12 pages: A BASWE field guide that lays out a 7-step job-search system for software engineers going after AI engineering roles. The steps are a one-page ATS-friendly resume, tailoring the resume to each job with a Claude prompt, exporting your LinkedIn connections, a three-tab job tracker, using Claude to match connections to companies for referrals, finding hiring managers' emails with Hunter.io and Apollo, and a cold email template with a follow-up schedule. It includes copy-paste prompts, message templates and a weekly routine aimed at an 8–12% application-to-interview rate. Work through it step by step, then repeat the weekly loop.
Guides only sent by DM
Open the post and comment the keyword; the link arrives by DM.
| Guide | Comment | Post |
|---|---|---|
| Bashiri Smith's '200k' full roadmap breakdown | 200k | 8-Week Roadmap to a $200K+ AI Engineering Role (Bashiri Smith, Facebook) |
| Bashiri Smith's AI Engineer Projects Breakdown | SKILLS | Six AI Engineering Skills, Six Portfolio Projects to Practice Them (Bashiri Smith, Facebook) |
| Bashiri Smith's AI Engineer Roadmap (free resource guide) | ROADMAP | AI Engineer Mistakes Pt. 3: Don't Grind Math First, Choose Embeddings Carefully (Bashiri Smith, Facebook) |
| Bashiri Smith's Free AI Engineering Guide | PLAN | Promo: Bashiri Smith's Free AI Engineering Guide and Community (Bashiri Smith, Facebook) |
| Bashiri Smith's free AI engineering interview resources guide | solved | AI Engineer Roadmap: 5 Skill Areas, a 24-Week Study Order & Interview Strategy (Bashiri Smith, Facebook) |
| Full Claude prompt (Bashiri Smith) | BETTER | Comment-to-DM Offer: Claude Prompt, 27 AI Engineering Projects & BASWE.AI (Bashiri Smith, Facebook) |
Recommended by both (34)
Resources that Bashiri Smith and Melvin Vivas each point to - a good place to start.
- Cursor · tool · x.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
AI-native code editor (VS Code with AI built in).
Mentioned in: GLM 5.3 and GLM 5.3 Flash now in Cursor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Grok Bot Can Now Hand Off Coding Tasks to Cursor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Why Plan Mode Still Matters in AI Coding Assistants (Codex, Claude, Cursor) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Why Plan Mode Still Matters in AI Coding Agents (Codex, Claude, Cursor) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 122 more
In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook - Claude Code · tool · code.claude.com · paid · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
Build agents and pipelines from the terminal; the guide's main agentic coding tool.
Mentioned in: Create Claude Code Plugins with /plugin-authoring (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Claude Code mods: customize behavior and UI with plugins (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AI Engineer Roadmap Overview: From ML Foundations to RAG, Agents & Ops (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), SkillsBento: Free Plugin Marketplace for Codex and Claude Code (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 102 more
In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook - Claude Opus 5.5 · tool · claude.ai · paid · open in a browser to verify · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
Anthropic's AI assistant, used throughout the guide to tailor resumes, add live roles to the tracker, match connections to target companies and find hiring managers.
Mentioned in: Generating a Repo Promo Video with a Claude Skill on Sonnet 5.5 vs Opus 5.5 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Comparing Coding Models on the Same Task in Devin iOS (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Customizing Your Coding Setup with Pi Coding Agent Extensions (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AI Engineer Roadmap Overview: From ML Foundations to RAG, Agents & Ops (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes) and 54 more
In a shared PDF: The Interview Engine: The 7-Step System to Land AI Engineering Interviews - shared in this reel on Facebook - Hugging Face · website · x.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
Platform for hosting and finding ML models, datasets and papers. The quoted post says LocateAnything was trending there.
Mentioned in: Using an ML agent to train an open-source TTS model on your voice (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Deploy Open-Source Models with Hugging Face Inference Endpoints (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Deploying Qwen3.8 27B on Hugging Face Inference Endpoints (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Using Hugging Face credits: Jobs, Inference Endpoints and Open Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 39 more - ChatGPT · tool · chatgpt.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
OpenAI's AI assistant (web, desktop and mobile apps), used for chat, coding, writing and image generation.
Mentioned in: Sign in with ChatGPT: Setting Usage Limits for Each App (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Dots Demo: A Voice AI Agent Handling Travel Booking and Feedback Triage (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), ChatGPT Can Commit Code Directly to Your GitHub Repo (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI Dots: Agents Inside ChatGPT That Debug, Fix, and Open PRs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 24 more - Google Colab · tool · colab.research.google.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
Free GPU notebooks.
Mentioned in: Run Notebooks on a Free GPU with Google Colab (T4, 15GB VRAM) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Run Local Models on a Free GPU with Google Colab (T4) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Free Colab Notebooks for Local Model Fine-Tuning and Inference (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Intent classification for support using GLiNER2.5-Decide notebook (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 13 more
In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook - Ollama · tool · x.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
Open-source tool for downloading and running LLMs on your own machine with minimal setup.
Mentioned in: Running LLMs Locally Without an Expensive Rig (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Adding Vercel AI Gateway as a provider in AIBackends with Devin (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Running Qwen3.8-27B Locally on an M5 Max MacBook with Inco Splash (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AIBackends: An API Layer Between Your App and AI Models (Now with Jev) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 13 more - GitHub · tool · github.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
Code hosting platform whose CI runs and pull requests the Cursor agents monitor and open.
Mentioned in: Grok Bot Can Now Hand Off Coding Tasks to Cursor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), ChatGPT Can Commit Code Directly to Your GitHub Repo (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Grok Bot Templates: Sharing, Publishing and Safely Installing Bots (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), 7 Habits to Become an AI Engineer: Books, Tooling, Research & Shipping (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes) and 10 more - Vercel · tool · x.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
Deploy web apps and frontends.
Mentioned in: OpenAI DevDay 2026 Recap: Dots, Agents API, Codex Cloud & Marketplace (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), 7 Habits to Become an AI Engineer: Books, Tooling, Research & Shipping (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Jev model added to the AIBackends API via Vercel AI Gateway (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Open models now dominate token volume on Vercel AI Gateway (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 8 more
In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook - Model Context Protocol (MCP) · docs · modelcontextprotocol.io · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
An open standard for connecting LLM apps and agents to tools and data sources. The official docs explain how it works and how to build servers and clients.
Mentioned in: Grok Bot Templates: Sharing, Publishing and Safely Installing Bots (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), 8-Week Roadmap to a $200K+ AI Engineering Role (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Paste Documentation URLs into Codex Instead of Using MCP (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI Agents API: Hosted Codex Harness for Long-Running Cloud Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 8 more - Docker · tool · docs.docker.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
Containerize everything you ship.
Mentioned in: Deploying AI workflow integrations with Apache Camel in Docker (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Devin's cloud Ubuntu sandbox ships with Docker pre-installed (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), 7 Habits to Become an AI Engineer: Books, Tooling, Research & Shipping (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), 8-Week Roadmap to a $200K+ AI Engineering Role (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes) and 6 more
In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook - OpenAI API · tool · platform.openai.com · paid · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
OpenAI API documentation, including function calling and structured outputs.
Mentioned in: How to Relearn LLMs & RAG in 2026: A 7-Step Roadmap with Free Resources (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Livestream: Building a React Native ChatGPT App with Cursor and OpenAI (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GPT-Live-1: OpenAI's Full-Duplex Voice Model for Voice Agents in the API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), The 3 Levels of AI Engineering: LLM Apps → Production → Agentic Systems (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes) and 5 more
In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook - PyTorch · tool · pytorch.org · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
Deep-learning framework. Its built-in scaled dot-product attention (SDP) was the baseline in this benchmark.
Mentioned in: Step-by-Step Roadmap to a $200K+ AI Engineering Role (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Wannabe vs $200K+ AI Engineer: RAG, Agents, Context and Fine-Tuning Mistakes (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), AI DevBox v1.3.0: a GPU-ready Docker image with coding-agent CLIs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Docker image with coding agents pre-installed on a CUDA + PyTorch base (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 6 more - Slack · tool · slack.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
Team chat app where the user-feedback channel lives and where the agent replies to close the loop.
Mentioned in: Dots Demo: A Voice AI Agent Handling Travel Booking and Feedback Triage (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Grok Team Bots: Shared AI Teammates in Slack and Grok (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), ChatGPT Voice Update: Plugins, Model Switching and ChatGPT Work (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Devin Gets a Mac VM: AI Agent Builds and Ships iOS Apps (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 5 more - LangChain · tool · github.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
Open-source framework with ready-made integrations and common interfaces for connecting LLMs, embedding models, vector stores and tools.
Mentioned in: SWE-to-AI Engineer Plan for 2027: LLMs, RAG, Agents, Evals, Job Search (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Basic RAG Pipeline in 60 Seconds: From Documents to Grounded Answers (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Step-by-Step Roadmap to a $200K+ AI Engineering Role (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), LangChain vs. LangGraph Explained with One RAG Chatbot (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes) and 4 more - Cohere · person · x.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
AI company that builds language, embedding and reranking models, and now the Transcribe speech-recognition model.
Mentioned in: Basic RAG Pipeline in 60 Seconds: From Documents to Grounded Answers (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Cohere Parse Beats Frontier LLMs at Receipt Parsing (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Cohere Parse: Pricing vs Parse Bench Score (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Cohere's North Micro Vision: a small open-source vision model for documents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 2 more - Andrej Karpathy · person · karpathy.ai · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
AI researcher and educator known for clear, free lessons on neural networks and LLMs.
Mentioned in: Karpathy's Tip: Ask LLMs to Explain in ASD-STE100 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Grok Team Bots: Shared AI Teammates in Slack and Grok (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), 6 Free Videos to Move from Software Engineer to AI Engineer (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Claude Opus 5.5 Released: Fable 5.1-Level Performance at 40% Lower Cost (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 1 more - arXiv · website · arxiv.org · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
A free archive of research preprints, with daily listings of new papers in fields like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science.
Mentioned in: 7 Habits to Become an AI Engineer: Books, Tooling, Research & Shipping (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Generate Job-Worthy AI Project Ideas from Recent Research Papers + ChatGPT (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), The complete arXiv corpus as a Hugging Face dataset (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Software Engineer to AI Engineer: Job Boards, Stack, Projects and Learning Sites (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes) and 1 more - Andrew Ng · person · x.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
A leading AI researcher and educator whose view is that more people should learn to code as AI tools improve.
Mentioned in: Andrew Ng Says Keep Learning to Code, but Learn the Modern Way (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Building Adaptive AI Agents: Skills from Traces and Code Knowledge Graphs (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Andrew Ng's AI Engineering Skills Map (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Andrew Ng on how anyone can become an AI Engineer (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) - Google Sheets · tool · google.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
Google's online spreadsheet app, used here as the place where the agent stores its results.
Mentioned in: Organizing Grok Bot Lead Collection in One Google Sheet (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Morning digest from a chief-of-staff agent (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), 6 Steps to Build a Resume Project That Lands an AI Engineering Job (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Using a Grok Bot to Automate LinkedIn and Collect Leads (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) - Hugging Face Spaces · tool · huggingface.co · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
Deploy demos publicly for free so recruiters can see them.
Mentioned in: Every Hugging Face Space Now Has AGENTS.md for Coding Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Calling Hugging Face Spaces from Claude Code as Agent Tools (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Hugging Face Pro Spaces Credits for Image Generation (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook - n8n · tool · n8n.io · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
No-code workflow automation with AI nodes.
Mentioned in: n8n vs Apache Camel for enterprise AI workflows (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Deploying AI workflow integrations with Apache Camel in Docker (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), How Postiz Hit $145K MRR: Agent-First Positioning and Selling Outcomes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook - LiteLLM · tool · github.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
An open-source LLM gateway/proxy that gives one API for many model providers, with cost tracking and pricing features.
Mentioned in: 7 Habits to Become an AI Engineer: Books, Tooling, Research & Shipping (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Using Codex to Fix a LiteLLM Pricing-Markup Bug in Docker (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Codex Finds a Bug in a LiteLLM Feature (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) - Next.js · tool · nextjs.org · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
Open-source React framework for building full-stack web apps.
Mentioned in: Problem Solving Over Keywords: The AI Skill That Never Expires (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Is Indie Hacking Dead? How AI Coding Changes the Micro-SaaS Playbook (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Building and Deploying a Full App with the Codex App, MCP Servers and Skills (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) - Python · tool · python.org · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
A programming language that comes preinstalled on Droplets created by the plugin.
Mentioned in: Step-by-Step Roadmap to a $200K+ AI Engineering Role (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Software Engineer to AI Engineer: Job Boards, Stack, Projects and Learning Sites (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Run Codex in the Cloud: Spin Up DigitalOcean Droplets with the Codex Plugin (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) - vLLM · repo · github.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
Open-source, high-throughput LLM inference and serving engine with continuous batching and efficient KV-cache management (PagedAttention).
Mentioned in: Ollama vs vLLM: From Local AI Demo to Production Inference Serving (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Serve GLM-5.2 NVFP4 with vLLM on NVIDIA Blackwell (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Gemma 4 Gets Up to 3x Faster with MTP Drafters (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) - Git · tool · git-scm.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
Version control system. Conductor uses its worktree feature to give each agent an isolated copy of the repo.
Mentioned in: AI Engineer Roadmap for 2026 in 60 Seconds (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Conductor Walkthrough: Running Parallel Coding Agents in Isolated Git Worktrees (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) - GitHub Actions · tool · github.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
GitHub's CI/CD automation platform, used to run the self-healing docs workflow.
Mentioned in: 5 Weekend AI Engineering Projects: Cost Routing, Caching, Evals & Observability (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Use Claude Code /loop to Watch and Auto-Fix Failing GitHub Actions (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) - GitHub Copilot · tool · github.com · check price · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
One of the agentic coding tools the guide names as letting non-technical builders ship.
Mentioned in: Opinion: Enterprises Pick GitHub Copilot, but Cursor Is Better (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook - Loom · tool · loom.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
A popular tool for recording your screen and camera to share video messages and demos.
Mentioned in: 90-Day AI Engineering Job Search: Targeted Companies, Outreach & Loom Pitches (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Clueso Agents: AI That Records and Edits Product Demo Videos for You (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) - Node.js · tool · nodejs.org · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
A JavaScript runtime that comes preinstalled on Droplets created by the plugin.
Mentioned in: Problem Solving Over Keywords: The AI Skill That Never Expires (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Run Codex in the Cloud: Spin Up DigitalOcean Droplets with the Codex Plugin (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) - OpenAI Evals · repo · github.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
Listed under eval frameworks for defining and running evaluations.
Mentioned in: Is OpenAI Evals Still Maintained? (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
In a shared PDF: Evaluation Field Guide (baswe.ai engineer accelerator – Ops and Evaluation module) - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook - promptfoo · repo · github.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
Listed under eval frameworks for defining and running evaluations, offline and in CI.
Mentioned in: Running LLM evals with promptfoo on local llama.cpp models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
In a shared PDF: Evaluation Field Guide (baswe.ai engineer accelerator – Ops and Evaluation module) - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook - Terraform · tool · terraform.io · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
Infrastructure-as-code tool for creating and managing cloud infrastructure.
Mentioned in: Step-by-Step Roadmap to a $200K+ AI Engineering Role (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Cautionary Tale: Claude Code Wiped a Production Database via Terraform (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
Most recommended
- OpenAI Codex · tool · openai.com · paid
OpenAI's coding agent. In the diagram it writes code, fixes review findings and drives the build loop. The creator also used it to make this video.
Mentioned in: An agent bot that installs and drives Codex on its own (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Asking a Coder bot to install Codex (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Sign in with ChatGPT: Setting Usage Limits for Each App (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Codex Cloud Environments Must Be Saved & Published Before Use (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 241 more - Cursor · tool · x.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
AI-native code editor (VS Code with AI built in).
Mentioned in: GLM 5.3 and GLM 5.3 Flash now in Cursor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Grok Bot Can Now Hand Off Coding Tasks to Cursor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Why Plan Mode Still Matters in AI Coding Assistants (Codex, Claude, Cursor) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Why Plan Mode Still Matters in AI Coding Agents (Codex, Claude, Cursor) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 122 more
In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook - Claude Code · tool · code.claude.com · paid · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
Build agents and pipelines from the terminal; the guide's main agentic coding tool.
Mentioned in: Create Claude Code Plugins with /plugin-authoring (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Claude Code mods: customize behavior and UI with plugins (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AI Engineer Roadmap Overview: From ML Foundations to RAG, Agents & Ops (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), SkillsBento: Free Plugin Marketplace for Codex and Claude Code (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 102 more
In a shared PDF: The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook - BASWE.Ai Engineer (Skool community) · community · skool.com · paid
The creator's paid community and program, with an AI learning roadmap (including the full ops and evaluation track), daily calls with engineers and recruiters, resume and portfolio help, and a job-search pipeline.
Mentioned in: Basic RAG Pipeline in 60 Seconds: From Documents to Grounded Answers (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Pointer to Bashiri Smith's Complete AI Engineer Roadmap for 2026 (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), Step-by-Step Roadmap to a $200K+ AI Engineering Role (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), How to Evaluate a RAG Pipeline: Retrieval vs. Generation (Interview Answer) (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes) and 77 more
In a shared PDF: 5 books to upgrade from software engineer into Ai/ML engineer - shared in this reel on Facebook; Evaluation Field Guide (baswe.ai engineer accelerator – Ops and Evaluation module) - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook; The AI Pivot Field Guide - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook; How to become an expert in RAG (BASWE AI Engineer Field Guide) - shared in this reel on Facebook, this reel on Facebook; The Interview Engine: The 7-Step System to Land AI Engineering Interviews - shared in this reel on Facebook - Hermes Agent · tool · github.com · free
Nous Research's open-source AI agent with CLI, TUI and desktop interfaces. It now supports hands-free activation with a wake word.
Mentioned in: Inspecting Coding-Agent Traces Live with JSONL Viewer (Codex, Claude Code) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Hermes Agent: each bot is its own profile (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), An X research bot built with Hermes (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Run Your Hermes Agent on Free LFM2.5-2.6B via OpenRouter (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 56 more - Claude Opus 5.5 · tool · claude.ai · paid · open in a browser to verify · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
Anthropic's AI assistant, used throughout the guide to tailor resumes, add live roles to the tracker, match connections to target companies and find hiring managers.
Mentioned in: Generating a Repo Promo Video with a Claude Skill on Sonnet 5.5 vs Opus 5.5 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Comparing Coding Models on the Same Task in Devin iOS (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Customizing Your Coding Setup with Pi Coding Agent Extensions (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AI Engineer Roadmap Overview: From ML Foundations to RAG, Agents & Ops (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes) and 54 more
In a shared PDF: The Interview Engine: The 7-Step System to Land AI Engineering Interviews - shared in this reel on Facebook - GPT-6 Astra · tool · openai.com · paid
The model announced in the quoted launch post, pitched as the developer's most capable model for work, coding, science and cybersecurity, and able to operate a computer.
Mentioned in: Customizing Your Coding Setup with Pi Coding Agent Extensions (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Pi Agent Council: Ask Multiple LLMs in Parallel and Compare Their Advice (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Use GPT-6.1 Sol by Default, Save Astra for Emergencies (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Dots in ChatGPT: always-on AI agents that you hand responsibilities to (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 50 more - Devin · tool · x.com · paid
A desktop app from the makers of the Devin coding agent for planning, delegating, reviewing and shipping work across fleets of local and cloud coding agents.
Mentioned in: Using the Devin iOS App to Build iOS Apps (Quick Demo) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Use Your ChatGPT Plus/Pro Subscription to Run Devin (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), OpenAI DevDay recap: Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, Codex Cloud, Agents API (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Devin price cuts and top score on FrontierCode 1.1 Extended (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 45 more - OpenRouter · tool · openrouter.ai · free
A single OpenAI-compatible API that routes requests to hundreds of models from many providers, with one bill and model fallbacks.
Mentioned in: Customizing Your Coding Setup with Pi Coding Agent Extensions (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), The Jev model is now on OpenRouter (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Kev-4B model, an alternative to Jev, now available on OpenRouter (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Space Bunny Alpha: stealth 1M-context flash model on OpenRouter (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 43 more - Pi · tool · x.com · free
A customizable coding agent that can be extended through its Extensions API and connected to several model providers.
Mentioned in: Sign in with ChatGPT: Setting Usage Limits for Each App (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Pi reaches v1.0 (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Claude Code mods: customize behavior and UI with plugins (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Customizing Your Coding Setup with Pi Coding Agent Extensions (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 40 more - Coworker (donvito/coworker) · repo · github.com · free
The creator's local-first desktop app where you pick an AI coworker and have it produce work such as invoices as finished PDFs.
Mentioned in: Claude Opus 5.5 for Video Making: Creator's Showcase Thread (Coworker) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker: free open-source desktop AI coworker app (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Coworker: Open-Source Desktop App for AI Agents (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Using Devin AI to Test the Coworker Desktop App on Windows (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 39 more - Hugging Face · website · x.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
Platform for hosting and finding ML models, datasets and papers. The quoted post says LocateAnything was trending there.
Mentioned in: Using an ML agent to train an open-source TTS model on your voice (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Deploy Open-Source Models with Hugging Face Inference Endpoints (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Deploying Qwen3.8 27B on Hugging Face Inference Endpoints (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Using Hugging Face credits: Jobs, Inference Endpoints and Open Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 39 more